Note 73 — Chapter XI · IMAGINATION
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Demon is the Greek name for the same being, its present infernal associations having been merely imported by the hostility and superstition of early Christianity. Socrates, for instance, attributed all his wisdom to his ‘daimonion’, and genius must undoubtedly have been affected by this word through the assiduous translation of Greek philosophy into Latin which began in the Augustan period.